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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Aprons and baking

Here is my lovely apron won in the giveaway, which arrived yesterday, much to my excitement! It was wrapped beautifully in tissue paper and tied with the flowery ribbon you can see in the photo.

Here it is hanging on the door.

A close-up of the two different materials used in its creation.

With the apron, there was a very thoughtful hand made card.

In the apron pocket, there was a surprise present of this crocheted egg in very Spring-like colours. Again, huge thanks to Elizabeth of http://mrsthomasinatittlemouse.blogspot.co.uk/ for this wonderful gift.
Once I had received the apron and pranced about in it for a while, I decided I needed to bake something to christen it with. Scones were deemed to be the ideal choice and then this developed into scones with cream and jam for a cream tea at the morning break.

I made two batches of scones - the ones above were made with vegan marg and soya milk (I nearly had a catastrophe due to not remembering milk was a major ingredient in scones and promising to make vegan ones specially, but luckily, the local shop was open and even more luckily, they had soya milk!)

The finished scones, some vegan, some vegetarian. I took them to work today and added some Channel Island very thick double cream and raspberry jam. I have to say they tasted wonderful! The vegan option was vegan spread and raspberry jam, but from the comments later, they were yummy too. So, my gorgeous apron has been christened and we have enjoyed (rather too much in my case) a proper cream tea. All in all, two very good days.

4 comments:

How lovely to see your apron ensconced in your kitchen! And your scones, both vegan and vegetarian, look absolutely yummy - what better baking could there be to christen the apron with?! So glad you like it! E x

Thank you so much for your comment. I have just had to make some more scones tonight, just so that we use up the cream, you understand! I have a feeling that your apron could be the start of a lot of baking activity which does not bode well for the waistline... but it will be very enjoyable and hopefully very delicious.Best wishesEllie

Beautiful present! THe apron has a lovely pattern and the hand made card and the crochet egg are so cute! I wish I had some of your muffins right now to go with my "maté" (Argentinean tea). Now that you mention double cream - do you know that here in the NL you can't find double cream? I normally have to make do with regular cream for my recipes...

Hello AledysMany thanks for your comment. I was so lucky to win such a lovely present.I wonder why you don't have double cream over there? Perhaps you're all much healthier than us!Your recipes always look good, whatever sort of cream you use. The gnocchi made me feel very hungry.Best wishesEllie

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I share the house and garden with my husband and a cat. I hate housework but love gardening. I have outgrown my small garden (my husband calls it my 'nursery of experiments') and spend many hours drooling over gardening books, dreaming of what I will do when I get my half acre of land! I also enjoy reading, baking, jewellery making, have recently started sewing and then there is felt making. I would love to have enough space for an art studio/craft room, but make do with the sitting room table for now.